This lonely tree defied the odds to break records Reuters
Thursday, December 24th 2020, 9:05 am - On a remote, rugged and windswept island, a lonesome tree battles the elements and breaks records. The spruce is not native to the subantarctic but despite Campbell Island s inclement weather, it is the world’s most remote tree.
A pictured provided on 23 December 2020 shows visitors standing in front of a Sitka spruce tree, the world s most remote tree which known as Ranfurly s Sitka, on Campbell Island, some 700 kilometres south of New Zealand.
Wellington (dpa) - On Campbell Island, some 700 kilometres south of New Zealand, grows a single Sitka spruce tree.
By Sajitha Prematunge
Oblivious to the laws of physics and before he could even grasp the meaning of the word velocity, he tried to calculate the speed of the bus he was travelling in, by taking into account how long it took the bus to travel between two lamp posts. He was just seven years old then. By grade three he was trying to calculate the light year longhand. It’s not rocket science, it was just a matter of multiplying how far light travelled in a second, by how many seconds there are in a year. But for an eight-year-old to even entertain such an idea, while his peers were still playing cops and robbers, is uncanny.
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The ancient Babylonian tablet, known as Plimpton 322 was discovered by Edgar K. Banks, who later became the inspiration for the Indiana Jones movie series. The tablet discovered in Iraq almost 100 years ago, is made of clay and thought to be 3,700-year-old. Banks sold it to George Plimpton for $10 but now the significance of the tablet and its importance to mathematics is started to become more clear.
Two professors from the University of New South Wales, have worked on cracking the code and learned that trigonometry was discovered not by Greeks, but by ancient Babylonians and the numbers of the Plimpton 322 are part of a trigonometric table. It is believed to be the foundation of trigonometry that uses ratios and not angles or circles. It is the work of pure genius and sheds a light on other ancient Babylonian tablets discovered by archaeologists.
The find challenges the assumed distribution of whale populations in the area
The new population may represent a unique and rare subspecies, experts said
Whales sing to coordinate their behaviour, with each pod having a unique song
A unique whale song has revealed the presence of a previously unknown population of blue whales living in the north-western Indian Ocean, a study has reported.
US-led experts detected the song being sung in acoustic recordings taken at three locations: the Chagos Archipelago, Madagascar and Oman s Arabian Sea coast.
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According to the researchers, it had long been recognised that a unique population of blue whales lives in the Northern Indian Ocean.